# OpenEdX Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 OpenEdX Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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OpenEdX

## What is OpenEdX?

Open source course management system that supports course creation and massive open online course delivery.

## What is OpenEdX used for?

[Learning Management System](https://www.capterra.com/learning-management-system-software/)[Higher Education](https://www.capterra.com/higher-education-software/)[Course Authoring](https://www.capterra.com/course-authoring-software/)

Overall rating

Based on 84 user reviews

Reviews sentiment

Positive

98%

Neutral

2%

Negative

0%

Starting price

$45

Per User, Per Month

Free trial  
available

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## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### OpenEdX

4.8 (84)

VS.

[4.7 (482)](https://www.capterra.com/p/230567/360Learning/reviews/)

Starting Price

$45

per user, per month

Starting Price

$8

Per User, Per Month

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

4.5 (84)

Ease Of Use

4.6 (480)

Value For Money

4.5 (69)

Value For Money

4.3 (386)

Customer Service

4.3 (63)

Customer Service

4.7 (440)

## OpenEdX alternatives

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Starting price

$3.58

Per User, Per Month

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Starting price

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Starting price

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[4.7 (192)](https://www.capterra.com/p/143513/LearnWorlds/reviews/)

Starting price

$99.00

Per User, Per Month

## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Tests/Assessments

5.0 (8)

62.50% of 8 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Create tools to measure student retention of learning material and lessons

Built-in Course Authoring

4.7 (7)

57.14% of 7 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Tools that allow users to create and publish courses and course material/content

Certification & Licensing

4.9 (7)

71.43% of 7 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Enables management and tracking the certification/licensing requirements of learners, employees, or stakeholders

Course Tracking

4.9 (7)

57.14% of 7 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Track which progress and course materials have been completed by each user

Gradebook

4.7 (7)

57.14% of 7 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Track student's scores and grades on course materials

Social Learning

4.4 (7)

57.14% of 7 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Create tools to promote social interaction and learning between students/trainees and instructors/trainers

OpenEdX 23 features

Software specialized for schools (K-12 & Post-Secondary)

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Creation, administration, and evaluation of assessments or tests

Assign issues and tasks based on availability or required skills

Tools that allow users to create and publish courses and course material/content

Centralized repository containing a list of all certifications

Create and distribute custom certificates for achievements or assessments.

Enables management and tracking the certification/licensing requirements of learners, employees, or stakeholders

Track and ensure employees obtain necessary skill sets/certifications

Developing custom training courses for educating employees or for teachers to create courses for their students

Create, organize, and assign courses to users

Track which progress and course materials have been completed by each user

Add customized logos and colors to align with company branding

Pre-designed layouts that can be customized to match preferences and requirements

Store, manage, and track all electronic documents in a centralized location

Track student's scores and grades on course materials

Allow the audience to interact or engage with the content

Organize and track educational activities

Access for students to complete learning materials on mobile platforms

Online portal through which end users can access the system, manage tasks, or obtain information

Create tools to promote social interaction and learning between students/trainees and instructors/trainers

Create tools to measure student retention of learning material and lessons

Connect with meeting participants remotely over video

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Features

4.6 (84)

4.6

Based on 84 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

4.5 (69)

Free Trial

Basic

$45.00

Value for money

4.5 (69)

4.5

Based on 69 reviews

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## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

4.3 (63)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

4.3 (63)

4.3

Based on 63 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.8

Based on 84 reviews

Filter by rating

5(65)

4(17)

3(2)

2(0)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

YC

Yash C.

Student

Computer Software

### "Great platform for learning any new skill."

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

February 28, 2023

Awesome experience, learned so many new things.

Pros

The thing that I liked the most was that this platform had instructors that were best in the world.

Cons

Got to learn so many things through this.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Samuel I.

CEO

Information Technology and Services

### "My skill acquisition center "

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

February 23, 2023

Pros

If you want to learn a new skill and you don't have money, OpenEDX got you covered because they have numerous free course you can take.

Cons

I fell that there should be a free certification too or make the cost of certificate more affordable especially for some mini courses.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Andrew H.

Sitecore Software Engineer

Computer Software

### "Training Platform"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

February 15, 2023

Pros

The best Course and training platform Also it has alot of tools that allow creating courses

Cons

Not many courses it has to be having more varieties

Switched from

[Coursera for Campus](https://www.capterra.com/p/228539/Coursera-for-Campus/)

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

Enseignant-chercheur

Higher Education

### "Utilisateur\_OpenEdX"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

3.0

3.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

December 25, 2022

Pros

Possibilité d'intégrer une large gamme de plugins pour créer du contenuUtilisation facile de la plateforme avec une communication simplifiée entre l'enseignant et l'élève

Cons

Pas de version gratuite, seulement un essai gratuit

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

Retail Banker

Banking

### " My review on openEdx"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

August 4, 2022

Pros

The availablity of variety of courses for the user and it's flexibility

Cons

I didn't dislike anything about this software

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AM

Amr M.

Instructional Designer.

Higher Education

### "Interactive Open-source LMS"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

May 10, 2022

As an Instructional Designer and data analyst, I find Open edX a good solution for online courses and educational technology research purposes. It helps me build data-driven e-Learning solutions for higher education faculty and researchers that allow them to deliver customized/personalized learning experiences. The platform Analytics features help educational technology researchers analyze and track students' performance, iterate on course design, and building recommender systems based on primary and authentic learning performance data. Open edX allows me to apply various learning theories, try Instructional design patterns, iterate on course design, and measure students' performance to discover the best learning solution that meets students' needs and improves their learning outcomes.

Pros

Open edX Learning Management System is an integrated eLearning solution with features and tools built to facilitate online course design, delivery, and administration. Also, it's open source and self-hosted. The platform allows for easy student enrollment, learning assessment and grading, learning analysis, learning interventions, peer and social learning, course certification, a support forum, and a user-friendly admin dashboard. Open edX tools encourage self-learning, engage students with interactive content, provide customized learning experiences, and automated intervention based on students' performance.

Cons

Open edX has limited third-party integrations. And it's not easy to set up by non-technical users. It requires a team effort of educational technology integration professionals and Instructional designers. The student user interface needs more enhancements.

Alternatives considered

[Canvas](https://www.capterra.com/p/127214/CANVAS/)

[Moodle](https://www.capterra.com/p/80691/Moodle/)

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

Sales specialist

Arts and Crafts

### "provides good interface"

3.0

Overall Rating

3.0

3.0

Ease of Use

1.0

1.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

May 4, 2022

Since I used it seems to work well

Pros

It's cool and outstanding However, Atleast it has some few errors which make it to become very slow sometimes it takes minutes to open up

Cons

Very friendly and useful as it's produce number of required skills in real life situation

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Usman Zafar M.

Lecturer Mathematics

Education Management

### "The Best MOOC platform for School, Colleges, Universities and organizations "

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

April 27, 2022

In front of such a great tools on openedx, we are feeling very relaxed as a college administration. All the credit goes to OpenEdX team. Thanks

Pros

The exciting and most bold thing about OpenEdx is it's one platform for all your learning needs. LMS: They are providing Learning Management System LMS for the learners, instructors, and course teams. It provides access to course content, and other supporting things like discussion boards, collaboration tools, certificate generation etc. It also supports online courses and online degree programs. OpenEdx Studio: openedx studio provides all the instructional course design tools. One can manage all the course authors, course content, course schedule, course team, grading policy and much more. OpenEdx Insights: They are providing intelligent analytics to help instructors understand how learners are engaging with course contents or materials. It's designed to support millions of users. They are providing providing built-in reports to help instructors, school, colleges, universities can easily host tens or hundreds of courses and store data in a warehouse or in LRS. E-commerce integration: They support a large number of products, courses including multi payment options for the buyers or learners like PayPal etc. Edx is the best online learning platform where anyone can learn any course and can get certificate. There are a lot of courses, professional programs and specializations designed to offer latest and updated skills knowledge to help the learners. One can easily learn from international recognized colleges, universities etc.

Cons

All the tools provided are great for MOOC. It's a great solution for online LMS, MOC platforms. The only thing I like least is that many if the great courses are not affordable for some students which are not free but the great thing on edx is that one can easily apply for price discount using the application and the officials are offering more than 10% discount and it's a great thing for poor or needy students.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Adriel O.

Chief Statistician

Research

### "Useful Training tool for Staff and Leadership"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

August 14, 2021

Pros

The website hosts so many MOOCs useful to train company personnel. I and my employees have benefited much from the free courses. There is no need to pay to study them - just for the certificates. We have no need for the latter, however, for we have established our brand already.

Cons

Prices for certificates too high - maybe decrease it for developing states.

Reasons for choosing OpenEdX

Free

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Godfrey C.

Technical Quality Manager

Tobacco

### "OpenEdX Review"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

July 12, 2021

A platform that allows you to study at the speed of your owners. This is great for employees with demanding work life but still wish to develop themselves in online courses. Personally, my participation in high quality classes on my own time has made a major impact on my career development The certification is legitimate and internationally recognized.

Pros

The platform has been intergrated with company HR sytem, which make it part and parcel of employees development tools to easily access anytime. The wide range of available courses, topics allows coverage of wider employee developmental needs.

Cons

No problem or challenge met on the platform.

Review source

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